Category Archives: Photo Industry

Photo District News interviewed me for a short piece about my photography and how I use my website. The article is sponsored by Photoshelter, the company that hosts my online portfolios, image archive, and client delivery galleries. To read the PDN interview, click on the image ⬇︎ Update: Two of my answers were not transcribed Continue Reading

What is more Americana? Eating cotton candy and then getting sick at the trash can after riding “The Gambler” or taking a picture of it with your iphone? I saw it happen but controlled myself. Save that for Vice Magazine’s Dos And Don’ts. iPhoneography Resources: You can get a little less Jo Jo with your Continue Reading

Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Evel Knievel served in the US army, worked at a copper mine, was a semi pro hockey player, started a successful hunting guide business, competed in ski jumping, pole vaulting, and rodeo events. For a brief period he was a profitable insurance salesman, but quit after not being promoted to Vice President Continue Reading

Dear Juice Magazine, I finally decided to subscribe to your mag for 3 reasons. #1) It rules, #2) I can never find it in stores, and #3) I wanted to support the mag instead of belly aching about the publishing industry. Web mags will come and go, but a good mag can be put on Continue Reading

Last week I was a guest speaker at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. A few former Brooks students have contacted me about assisting, and after speaking with Eli Davis at Career Services, I was invited to present some of my work to students and talk about my experiences in the photo industry. Not Continue Reading

Another young man in a hurry. Portrait of Justin Nambiar while on a magazine shoot in Oakland, CA. The identity of AYMIAH is my former assistant Justin Nambiar who is now on his own. See Part 1: Being a photographer’s assistant in Baltimore. Experience VS Emerging When the rent is due and it is time Continue Reading

Another anxious young photographer in a hurry. This silhouetted assistant below was taken on a recent magazine shoot in Oakland, CA. As a photographer now with a few freelance years under my belt, I was recently reminded what it felt like during the beginning when I fist started out. While I was Continue Reading